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DOUG’S RETIREMENT TRAVEL BLOG
65: time to hit the road
I retired. Twice. The first time in 2022, without Leslie; the second time in 2024, with her. Maybe this time it’ll stick.
Several discreet trips; each is a category. You can select one below to see it specifically, or just walk through. They're in reverse chronological order.
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2025 June 13-18: New York
August here! Fri June 13: Chinatown with August. Excellent lunch from Yi Ji Shi Mo Noodle Corp. picked it up there, ate in Columbus...
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19 hours ago2 min read
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2025 June 7-12: New York
Saturday June 7: Met the small child at The Met, spent a couple hours mostly in the John Singer Sargent exhibit, then a stroll through...
dougbergh
6 days ago1 min read
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2025 June 1-6: New York
Sunday June 1: Macchiato & croissant at Saraghina just around the corner on Halsey at Lewis. Then, the A train into NoLiTa Manhattan, met...
dougbergh
Jun 71 min read
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2025 May 31/June 1: New York!
H&J took us to the airport for our 10:45 flight to Oslo. Flight was uneventful… Eight hours in Oslo. Crammed the bags in 2 lockers & took...
dougbergh
Jun 21 min read
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2025 May 25-30: Trondheim
Still more around town. Covered it pretty well: The coastal steamer consists of two boats: northbound & southbound. They meet in the...
dougbergh
May 301 min read
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2025 May 18-23: Trondheim
A week bumming around Trondheim & environs… Jazz every Sunday PM at Ila Brainstasjon, a pub a short walk from Heidi & Jan’s: Ila...
dougbergh
May 301 min read
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2025 May 17: Constitution Day
17-Mai, as it is known, is the biggest holiday of the year in Norway. It’s the anniversary of the ratification of their constitution in...
dougbergh
May 291 min read
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2025 May 12-16: Ã…lesund etc
5-day road trip to Ã…lesund & environs. Jan grew up there; Kai-Erik, Solveig & Sigve live there now. Day 1, stopped for lunch @ friend of...
dougbergh
May 251 min read
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2025 May 9-11: Trondheim
Kicked around town over the weekend: A few of my favorite things..geitost is brown sweet goat cheese:
dougbergh
May 201 min read
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2025 May 8: Trondheim!
As we know, little sister Heidi lives in Trondheim with her husband Jan. It’s been a while (8 years), it was time for an extended visit....
dougbergh
May 191 min read
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2025 May 6-7: Capri
Full day on the island May 6. Morning on the Airbnb terrace: Macchiati & croissants @ the bar (substantial savings if you don’t sit...
dougbergh
May 192 min read
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2025 May 5: Naples & Capri
Mon 5th: Up early, bus to Naples, dropped big bags off at a bag storage shop at the airport, pizza in town, ferry to Capri! Naples:...
dougbergh
May 191 min read
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2025 May 2-5: Last Amalfi
Last 3 days. Fri 2nd, sunrise on the terrace: scooted east past Atrani looking for a beach, settled at Maiori: Swung through...
dougbergh
May 141 min read
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2025 May 1: Sorrento
Took a longer scoot, 2nd trip to Sorrento - on the north side of the peninsula - maybe 2 hours to get there. The route: down to the...
dougbergh
May 141 min read
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2025 April 30: Agerola
Decided to take a relatively short, morning hike. Halfway in, extended to a longer loop. Turned out to be very long, to the top of Monte...
dougbergh
May 101 min read
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2025 April: getting around
A word on getting around on the Amalfi coast: Scooter. The road to anywhere from Agerola is down the 2000’ cliff with lots of...
dougbergh
May 101 min read
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2025 April 29: Praiano
There’s a town on the coast on the way to Positano, we’ve stopped there a couple times. From there there’s a trail up to the path of the...
dougbergh
May 41 min read
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2025 April 28: cliff below Agerola
Today we did a relatively short exploration of roads off of the Agerola road, on the cliff headed down to Amalfi. So this is, from above,...
dougbergh
May 41 min read
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2025 April 27: Pogerola to Amalfi
Scooted to Pogerola, haggled a parking place with the locals, hiked to lunch in Amalfi & back. 6 miles horizontal, 1200’ vertical:...
dougbergh
May 31 min read
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2025 April 26: Agerola
I’m way behind - doing this post on may 3 - wi-fi was out for days grrr…so text’ll be a bit sparse… Sunrise on the terrace: The town of...
dougbergh
May 31 min read
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